Whew! What a week it was last week… Last Wednesday, I brought pal and photog instructor guru Zack Arias into my studio for another episiode of chasejarvisLIVE. We chatted photography for 2 hours and took questions from the live Twitter audience via #cjlive. Was a blast. While about 20,000 of you caught the interview LIVE–it seemed like I got at least that many tweets/emails/fbook requests to post it again here on the blog, so… As you wish. Here ’tis.
From there, we shipped Zack and his crew into our creativeLIVE studio where he put on one heckuva studio lighting course all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully you saw the interwebs booming, especially with the @creativeLIVE and #askzack tags. I’m pretty sure Zack swiped some ratings from the World Cup. Or at least we had fun trying. I wanted to give a huge shoutout to Zack and his team for an amazing effort. You guys and gals nailed it. Also a shoutout also to all the manufacturers that kicked in gear for Zack to give away, as well as uber thanks to B&H Photo Video for their support of the creativeLIVE studio and G-Technology for keeping our gobs and gobs of data safe. They support us, please support them. I hope lots of you tuned in. And if you didn’t but wished you had, the course is available for download here.
While I’ve got you, I wanted to ask for your feedback. Not somebody else’s…YOURS. In the comments below, we’re looking to find out a few things with the goal of making creativeLIVE the best it can be. Tell us whatever you want, but please help us by answering some or all of the following particulars about our LIVE, free, worldwide creative education platform:
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
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1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
Not so great as being there, but the free live feed is definitely great for people who can’t afford the download / actual attendance (and lines them up as customers when they can).
2. Where in the world do you live? Brisbane, Australia. I watched the second half of each day live in the morning and then caught the first half in the afternoon. I wouldn’t have done it this way if I didn’t already have a good idea of most of the stuff (though, if I’d actually been there trying to apply it I think I would have had a hard time (which is why being there in person, you learn a lot more!))
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? It works, as well as not being there can. It was a great insight for someone who has never been to a workshop, and shows me just how great they are (at least, those run by you guys!)
Zack – I love you. For making the transform video, and for remembering how it is for us sitting here going “how the eff did he get there? I wanna be there” and telling us how to do it. Thanks for the inspiration!!! Please keep kicking our asses about getting our stuff out 🙂
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others? I was attracted to it because it was FREE but ending up buying into it because it was REALLY GOOD! Zack is an amazing teacher and the technical aspects (overall production) of the class were put together extremely well for a live internet feed.
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed? Central Alabama – I watched at random times during the day when my kids napped and listened to the rewatch at night while editing images.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. Yes, I think so. What does the experience feel like to you? I enjoyed having it playing in the background as I was multi-tasking.
1.It’s a unique opporutnity to learn from the best for free. I love it.
The format of the workshop with people participating there was interesting and fun. Seein Zack working, fascinating.
2.I live in Huesca, north of Spain.
3.I think so. I think it works really well. The streaming video offers quality, the sound is perfect, the possibility of asking in through twitter is really good. I had some questions answered by Zack .
I enjoyed every second of Zack’s weekend. I am thinking of paying for the download to watch it again.
Zack, Chase all the stuff about negativity and bitterness is good to hear and is the easiest road to go down.
Just wanted to let you know I have been hounded by assistants since this went out, you obviously encouraged people with you thoughts on “getting in the game”
cheers
ian